"It wasn't never meant to go like that," Devele Reid said while detectives took him away in handcuffs on Tuesday. "I was just supposed to get a couple dollars and help my family and go from there, and it didn't go how I wanted it to. It was an accident. It wasn't like I meant to shoot him or nothing."

Reid said he wanted to rob Jordan Coyner on Monday evening, but Coyner fought back. He said he acted in an instant and is very remorseful.

"I apologize for the loss, and I'm just going to do what I got to do," the 22-year-old Swissvale man said. "I did my crime. I got to do my time. I just hope the best, and I pray for my victims and their families."

Coyner lived with his parents on Julia Lane, a winding road that dead-ends near a park in a quiet area of Kennedy Township. A neighbor described him as quiet and said he graduated from Montour High School and played on the football team.

"The father, I'm sure as you can imagine, is a little distraught. He did say that he heard the one shot and a 'bang' down in the game room," Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said.

According to police, Reid and four juveniles went to the Coyner home for marijuana at about 8 p.m., with two of the visitors staying in the driveway and the others entering through the garage. A few minutes later, Jordan Coyner was shot in the head.

On Thursday, police said three of the juveniles had been arrested and will be charged as adults.

"This is a nice neighborhood. This is a typical middle-class suburban neighborhood. This is the last thing anybody would expect to happen in your neighborhood," Kennedy Township Police Chief Anthony Bruni said.

County police said a cellphone and clothes that were ditched after the shooting led them to Reid, who was arrested and taken to the county jail without bail. They'll consult the district attorney about whether the juveniles should be charged too.

"It all happened over a stupid amount of something that shouldn't be sold," said Coyner's neighbor, Vinny Garofalo. "I know the kid, he's smarter than that, and it's stupid for anything like this to happen. It's a kid that's 20, and his life's gone for no reason."